Valereum Plc, a UK-based fintech company that specializes in regulated tokenization platforms, digital asset infrastructure, and payments technologies, has just announced it has secured a major investment partnership. The deal is structured as investment-grade asset-backed financing and is expected to yield $10.5 million annually to Valereum at a 5.25% coupon rate. Valereum unveils $100M funding
Long before the collapse in stock prices of crypto companies this year, executives protected themselves with spectacular paydays detailed in Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings. With lavish pay packages that paid out even during the horrible bear market, the fine print tells an entirely different tale than their public storytelling. Consider the executive compensation
Since taking office, US President Donald Trump and his family have dived headfirst into a wave of crypto-focused business ventures, briefly seeing their wealth surge on the back of these deals. But that momentum has faded. Today, both the Trump family’s gains —and those of their most devoted supporters— have been wiped out as market
Financial regulators in the Russian Federation are set to scrap a strict rule that requires investors to be “highly qualified” to gain access to crypto assets. Russian cryptocurrency investments are still limited by an “experimental” framework, but the country intends to properly regulate the market in the coming months. Russia mulls easing investor access to
BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) has registered massive outflows in November 2025. With just a few days before the month ends, IBIT could see the highest negative monthly close in history. Massive outflows from IBIT in November 2025 Since launching in January 2024, IBIT has recorded the biggest Bitcoin ETF outflow in history this month.
As Bitcoin (BTC) makes a minor short-term recovery, insights from an artificial intelligence (AI) platform suggest that the asset is likely to find support at $90,000 on December 1. After dropping to around $80,000, Bitcoin is now seeking to reclaim the $90,000 level in search of a push beyond $100,000. By press time, Bitcoin was
U.S. Bank, the fifth-largest commercial bank in the U.S., has started testing the issuance of custom stablecoins on the Stellar network, according to a Tuesday announcement. Teaming up with PwC and the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) for the initiative, the bank aims to explore whether a traditional bank can safely issue programmable money on a